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Bug description

In Word 2007 and Word 2008, when using the editor to enter a new source, a dialog is presented to enter the three parts of an author's name: last, first, and middle. Word then converts those elements from their XML representation into a single string to display in the main source dialog. When saving the reference, the string is transformed back to the XML representation. Unfortunately, the transformations are not a 1:1 operation. Hence, in some cases, information gets moved to the wrong element. Two examples:

1. Persons with only a last name consisting of multiple words are converted incorrectlyFor example:

Fix description

If no commas are present, the fix assumes the format to be "Last" rather than "First Middle Last".

The XML representation is transformed into "Last, First, Middle" rather than "Last, First Middle". An extra comma is placed between First and Middle allowing for a two-way transformation. People inputting the authors directly as a string should take this into account.

Who should apply this fix

Although the fix has no known side effects, only people who care about these bugs should use this fix. If you do not care about the bugs, it is never a good idea to tamper with your installation.

If the fix has side effects, you can download the original files to place them back.

Applying the fix

The fix consists of replacing two existing XSL files with the ones you can download from this page.